Thursday, January 31, 2013

Of Fictionalization

As unfortunate as it was to keep finding
forgotten Mental Abilities for the inventory, it’s at the same time fortunate
that my arsenal is growing wider. There are several of them I wish to talk
about so it can make for an updated inventory, but while I keep finding them,
I’ll talk about this little boy.

This is an ability I’ve once mentioned a long,
long time ago, in a September 2011 post called “invading waves and magic
defensive skills”. I see I’ve called it “Protection Rail”, but when I think
about it, it’s seems to be more like a class than the skill itself. During the
whole of 2012 it seems I had it forgotten, but now I’m delta-retrieving it and
boy I should have done it before.

As it happens, I see my situation happening to
some character. It’s some sort of schadenfreude thing, though it isn’t as
wicked. It’s hard to explain the feeling, but it could be like the feeling it
can happen to someone else and I am not alone experiencing this. It feels silly
that I am so lonely I need to resort to this, but then again art wouldn’t exist
if we had simpler ways to catharse our sorrows away.

And the interesting part is that it happens
through spells, and not a decision of analyzing my situation and bringing it
fictitious. It’s instantaneous and it’s very, very effective. After all, the
exact feeling as I know is there, outside me. By telling others I would have to
express it through inaccurate words and their recognition wouldn’t possibly be
the same.

Though it usually happens through this instant
spell that can be the simple act of passing my bad luck, blunders and
bereavement to this poor fictional ragdoll, I can also try to do it more
manually, and I believe I can also develop it to become a more elaborate metaphor,
like changing scales from individual to national. If I understand the
allegorical quintessence a little better, I’ll be able to do wonders.

I won’t ever let myself forget it, because this
trick is a key mental ability to both live and survive life. That is, it
doesn’t simply lighten my soul, but brings me creative material. It’s like
finding a way to make waste to become a source of energy. It’s both a nuclear
victory and converging advantage.